Found in western Oaxaca state of Mexico on oaks in oak forests at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, cool growing epiphyte with cane-like, terete, slightly laterally compressed in the apical third, erect stems enveloped completely by tubular, leafless and in the apical third, thin, papery leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 to 12, erect, thin, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse to rounded, basally clasping and articulate to the leaf-bearing sheaths that blooms in the fall through spring on a terminal, over various years, dense, arching, terete, erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, inflorescence arising on a newly to old mature cane and carrying several [10 to 25], fleshy flowers, few to several flowered inflorescence that arises on a newly matured pseudobulb carrying 9 to 11, simultaneous, resupinate, fragrant flowers